Ryan Murphy's Killer Fashion Shoot

With his new project, 'American Horror Story', the 'Glee' co-creator has spun a gothic soap opera so addictive, it's scary. Here, he casts the stars of his current hits—dressed in the season's retro-femininity—in his favorite nail-biters

"That movie was very primal and creepy—it's about something coming from the earth. It really freaked me out as a kid. For me, it precedes Jaws...`Don't go into the water,' " says Murphy. "I love Lea in this role; she gets that sexual thing and that '50s style of acting, in which everything was pushed and heightened and melodramatic." He adds: "I wonder if anyone could remake it and make it scary. I doubt it, since it's about an amphibious flipper man. That's two things that you don't want to put together: swamp and sex."

Ryan Murphy’s Killer Fashion Shoot

Ryan Murphy’s Killer Fashion Shoot

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman Starring Dianna Agron

"I always thought The 50 Foot Woman was about sexual hibernation turned to awareness," says Murphy. "And in most of the horror movies I like, a female character wins." Murphy calls the film "sexy and glamorous. But no matter how you cut it—weird."